Running head: A GRANT PROPOSAL for the NEA

Grant Proposal for the NEA C. Gallagher July 29, 2011

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The Executive Summary ................................................................................................................. 3 Cover Letter .................................................................................................................................... 4 Introduction ..................................................................................................................................... 5

1. Description of the Organization ............................................................................................................ 5 2. Unmet Need, Including Pertinent Facts................................................................................................. 5 3. Proposal: Approaching a Solution ......................................................................................................... 6 4. Established Goal .................................................................................................................................... 6 5. Appropriately Established Measurable Objectives ............................................................................... 7

The Budget ...................................................................................................................................... 8 Human Resource Requirements.................................................................................................... 13 Technology (IT) Requirements ..................................................................................................... 14 Implementation Activities; Operations Requirements .................................................................. 16 Considering the NEA; Addressing Potential Challenges ............................................................. 19
Issues ....................................................................................................................................................... 22 The Intelligence in Grant Identity ........................................................................................................... 23

References ..................................................................................................................................... 24 Honor Statement ........................................................................................................................... 27

Development of a Grant Proposal The Executive Summary The Bay Area Alternative Press (BAAP) has been supported by award-winning artists, writers, influential professors, businesses such as Toyota, Toshiba, Starbucks, and influential educators from all areas of academia; therefore, BAAP has thrived for 31 years through private corporations and individuals. However, it has yet to seek direct support for its multidisciplinary activities and products through reputable governmental sources. As an independent federal agency, the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) offers a Grant entitled Artist Community Art Projects that will enable BAAP to continue production during the public funding crisis that has cut billions of federal and state dollars from state universities and public schools. This Proposal seeks the NEA Grant, which provides a solution that will unite BAAP and its communities through innovative interest and activities to achieve a new worthy art project that will revitalize all integrated sectors of BAAPs operations, even from national fiscal levels. The NEA Grant will serve to fulfill BAAPs unmet need that involves the security of its stakeholders and neighborhoods in respect to collaboration and the influences of media, video games, and internet content on our developing populace. Support by the NEA independent federal agency is critical to BAAP's viability because the Grant will benefit its outreach programs through its provision of Federal Domestic Assistance, employment options, and

technical upgrades. The organization cannot maintain its Mission until it establishes this essential supportive venue. Until it completes and submits its NEA Application, BAAP's legacy of success is compromised as its artists strive to cover issues that BAAP stakeholders realize are a result of private interest groups, for example--federal support is essential to its Mission to cover newsworthy issues with excellent artwork. Therefore, everyone should support this Proposal today.

Development of a Grant Proposal Cover Letter Dear Members of BAAP and colleagues: As an Artist Community that extends an innovative spectrum of artistic disciplines and

related literature to disadvantaged and highly educated communities, this organization needs and deserves the support of the National Endowment for the Arts Artist Community Grant for Art Projects. Our excellent artwork and literature shall flourish in respect to the increasing audiences that the Grant will serve to reach, and because our monumental work encourages critical thinking and educational endeavors, it will improve the dynamic infrastructures of our immediate and global societies. Simultaneously, the Grant will improve educational conditions and opportunities through the meaningful relationships that our members cultivate through their monumental well-planned work. Although we need more than we are requesting to sustain our Mission, the $100,000 that the NEA will provide our new Art Project and Art Works will preserve the educational direction that we provide throughout our communities. When will all of our members meet to unite toward this prosperous pursuit and to begin the qualifying and application process? As a company of Artist-Community members who extend an innovative spectrum of disciplines and related literature to disadvantaged and highly educated communities, this organization needs and deserves the support of the Art-Project Grant offered by the National Endowment for the Arts, which will benefit our neighborhood and infrastructures with lasting impressions. Our excellent artwork and literature are unlike any other because our monumental work encourages critical, analytical, and creative thinking throughout all levels of academic interest. This Proposal will result in the improvement of the educational environment of our immediate and global societies; consequently, the Grant will improve educational conditions and

Development of a Grant Proposal opportunities through the meaningful collaboration that our members encourageinfluential culture and reasoning that exemplary reports, editorials, and illustrations innovate. Our future depends on this Grant to support our Art Projects as an Artist Community. When will all of our members meet to advance this prosperous pursuit, and to begin the qualifying and application process? Introduction 1. Description of the Organization For more than 30 years, BAAP has been providing on-the-job training and internships for credit at its professional publishing and printing company. It has featured editorials by prominent University professors, award-winning writers, and teachers in medicine, biology, the sciences, politics, current events, and literature. Artists who have won prestigious awards have published their work through BAAP resources, including its independent periodical Pressing Times. Among its fine artists, Robert Parada also produced excellent work for Mad Magazine, Time Magazine, Rolling Stone, and Esquire that won him a Harvey Award and other rewards from the Society of Illustrators and American Illustration, for example; Eli W. Harris has also won top prizes from the Academy of Art University in San Francisco. 2. Unmet Need, Including Pertinent Facts One unmet need involves negative reactions of the parents of adolescent-aged students who fear their childs internet access over potential detrimental influences and associations. Upon conversing with parents at the literature table and by phone, we learn that at least 90% of

the parents do not approve of all internet content and the ultimate activity to which their children may be subjected. KCBS radio reports 120 homicides in 2007, one robbery per 114 citizens, and the auto theft rate of 1 per 40 citizensmore than a 10% increase over the past decade. The

Development of a Grant Proposal NEA Grant would provide essential security and legal protection for each member of the organization and the organization as a whole through a security system, associated legal advocacy at the County Bar Association, and a secure parking facility; therefore, the Grant will enable the company to expand its services and products. 3. Proposal: Approaching a Solution Producing highly reputed art and literary works that transpire in critical and analytical discourse and communications that revitalize community economies, the organization indicates

important criteria that the NEA will consider in its decision to Grant funds toward the individual and collective needs of the organization. Because supportive measures include a letter of commendation from the towns mayor that is important also to the recognition of the organization as a public entity and cultural organization, and its nonprofit partner, Oaklands Intertribal Friendship House, the Proposal will encourage solutions essential to the security and effective legal representation of the organization. As a solution to its needs, important letters will also involve the supportive measures that involve the organizations status not only as an unincorporated membership association (Fuller, 2010), but as either a public entity or nonprofit tax-exempt 501 (c)(3), its DUNS number (www.dnb.com), and its registration with the Central Contractor Registration (CCR: www. ccr.gov). 4. Established Goal Through multidisciplinary activities, the BAAP Press, its cooperative magazine, training, internship, community associations, events, and coverage will support the needs of its members and management to continue the production of the most excellent and diverse art and literature through the goal of a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). That goal involves expansive support for the tremendous needs of our artistic and publishing communities,

Development of a Grant Proposal including Oaklands Intertribal Friendship House, to produce highest quality, nationally published work. The exclusive artist residency will continue to cultivate and support the provocative creative process of art, literature, and/or media products to transform its associated and surrounding communities into cultural centers that rejuvenate health from every sector, and that improve law-enforcement and security measures as merchants in the area simultaneously

flourish. The goal further involves the improved viability of our town which will be the result of our recognized esprit cordiale with the nearby police department, ethnic radio station, and Renaissance Journalism Project, for example. Through the inspiration of profound critical arts and literature, the goal to improve business will increase community revenues by at least 300%. 5. Appropriately Established Measurable Objectives Achieving the goal will involve surveys, records, and a timeline about the following objectives: A liaison that the organization maintains with the nearby police department, the Lifelong Medical Association, the ethnic broadcasting network, KPFA, and the Renaissance Journalism Projectthe grant will improve financial and defensive support by at least 300%; The sense of civic identity that the company evokes, which may be measured and described through surveys and regular checklists as a supportive learning environment, as indicated in Harvard Business Review (Edmonson, Garvin, & Gino, 2008, para. 5; The results-oriented approach as described in International Public Management Review that indicates an effective initiative revolving about our town as fellow merchants interact with supportive measures to the literature- and artwork- literature table and support networks at which Pressing Times and publishing services are offered that improve the quality of community life Casey, Peck, Webb, & Quast, 2008).

Development of a Grant Proposal Influences of intelligible creative activity and the highest moraleBAAPs products and services refrain from any over-reliance or short-term financial measures like ROI which Harvard Business Review indicates could cause a short death of investment in the innovation that is its lifeblood (Magretta, 2002, 136); and

The welcoming sense of place essential to community prosperity through its partnerships with other beneficial associates as described in Info-line (Info-line, ASTD, 2000, 1). The Budget Since BAAP is comprised of numerous partnerships that actually foster all of the outcomes of Creation, Engagement, Learning, and Livability of artists throughout its multifarious avenues of higher education, it is first planning a budget proposal as an Artist Community for the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Grant of $100,000. Throughout its 31 years, the organization has established partnerships with exceptionally talented local, distant, and travelling artists, professors, instructors, and writer-editors. The NEA Grant for the Artist Communitys Art Works Grant will function as a prelude to the cultural impact that the Our Town Grant for $250,000 will achieve. The Art Works Grant is an optimistic prospect due to the submission deadline of March 2012, and the opportunistic Art Works Grant will offer NEA support beginning January 1, 2012. Unlike any other, the Artist Communitys Art Works Grant offers Federal Domestic Assistance that will cover the extensive support of affordable housing, employment, education, safety, comfortable transportation, and an aesthetically appreciable environment. The Grant will finance all of the expenses necessary to secure the plethora of social, civic, and cultural activities that the organization strives to expandthe organization will be supported to offer legal temporary housing to its award-winning participants and teachers so that it may apply for the Artist Community Our Town Grant during 2013.

Development of a Grant Proposal 1. Narrative: Review of Plan Complemented with a large dining hall, kitchen, off-street parking, library, conference room, computer lab, press room, and upstairs living accommodations, the NEA Artist

Communitys Art Works Grant will provide legal protection to BAAP in its quest to produce and to distribute further art of the most excellent quality throughout the world. The Grant will provide all of the support that the community requires to save its work to new formats. Since the BAAP staff and board members represent many artist-illustrators, instructors, journalists, and editors who have lost regular wages and pension funds since the newspapers for which they once worked have transformed to one merging online news service (Fuller, 2010), the Grant will fund the living quarters and equipment necessary to preserve the organizations operations. The $100,000 grant will enable BAAP to maintain its complete multi-level facilities, a historic landmark that is the only and oldest Masonic building in Berkeley, California. 2. Estimated Cost of Resources Projected All-Inclusive Cost The itinerant all-inclusive cost of all resources for 2013 that pertain to the NEA Grant is $100,000. Domestic accommodations are very discretethe organization has been searching for the assistance of an attorney who will be willing to volunteer time and resources that BAAP needs to declare itself an official artist community, writers cooperative, social outreach program, and publications society. The NEA Grant will provide the $20,000 that an attorney needs to protect BAAPs interests, security, work, and legal rights in 2013. Legal security will alleviate unusual tension of artists who are working within the building and who do not hope to become victims of any unfounded accusations, slander, and/or libel. As they are able to address their domestic living issues while they are at the Berkeley facility, BAAPs artists and instructors will be able to fully devote their attention to their work. They will be funded with the finances

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that the staff requires to renovate the living facilities within the historic building that exists in a business-zoned area. The overall costs of domestic improvement and individual salary will be $57,020the historic landmark is in need of plumbing updates. The major artists, senior staff, and instructors of Photoshop and InDesign will receive $34,000 for their recognized part-time work as they reside at the artist community. Artist supplies, updated computers, miscellaneous technical equipment, and other maintenance costs, transportation, and further domestic goods will require at least $38,000. This Grant will enable the Artist Community to continue to receive other grants, private contributions, and proceeds from the sale of its printing services and products. 3. Anticipated Expenses Projected Budget for Funds Supplied by the NEA Artists Community: Artist Project Bay Area Entire year of Expenses Alternative 2013 Press Art Project: Business Estimate Operating Costs 12 PCs with Windows 7 Operating System, and Router to facilitate online operations for all workers and students Upgrades to Adobe Licenses of Photoshop and InDesign for all $ 1,200 $ 1,400 $ 200 116.67% $ 4,800 $ 5,000 $ 200 104.17% Actual Difference Difference (%)

Development of a Grant Proposal 12 PCs Compatible scanner Maintenance of Pressroom Equipment toward live Public Relations, Broadcasting, Presentation of Art Projects Plumbing Upgrades Transportation of Literature Table to Community and Educational Events Insurance, Auto & Property Attorney Fees Taxes (Property) and City/other License Fees Utilities Miscellaneous Total $ 1,200 $ 200 $ 1,300 $ 300 $ $ 100 100 150% 150% 108/73% $ 800 $ 850 $ 50 ------$ 50 106.25% -------106.25% $22,880 $ 3,000 $25,000 $ 3,200 $ 2,120 $ 200 109.48% 106.67% $ 120 $ 2,000 $ 225 $3,000 $ 105 $1,000 187.5% 150%

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$10,000 $ 800

$10,000 $ 850

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$ 4,105

Livability Estimate Federal Domestic Need Upgrades to Domestic Facilities (Showers, Kitchen fixtures and $ 1,020 $ 1,400 $ 380 137.25% Actual Difference Difference (%)

Development of a Grant Proposal tubs) Legal Costs, Attorney Fees Temporary Living Expenses (Wages for Employment while at BAAP) of Staff Temporary Living Expenses (Wages for Employment while at BAAP) of 2 Staff Members $ 24,000 (i.e., $12,000 for each of the 2 staff members) Temporary Living Expenses (Wages for Employment while at BAAP) of 4 Graphic Artists/Artist Teachers $ 12,000 (i.e., $ 3,000 for each of the 4 professional artist teachers) Temporary Living Expenses (Wages for Employment while at BAAP) of 4 Award-Winning Student Artists Total Grand Total $10,000 (i.e., $ 2,500 for each of the 4 student artists) $ 57,020 $100,000 --------$ 4,105 --------$104,105 ------------------------------------------$ 10,000 $10,000 -------------

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How will BAAP absorb the extra $4,105 operating and domestic costs as it is developing its most monumental project that is oriented about historic heritage, harmonious environmental conditions, and related architectural influences? Through its accurate replacement of its literature table, the organization achieves the civic identity and support from ethnic leaders that International Public Management Review indicates are important to its sustainability (Edmonson, Garvin, & Gino, 2008), and that Harvard Review declares are essential to its financial viability (Casey, Peck, Webb, & Quast, 2008). The innovative lifeblood (Magretta, 2002) that prolongs its partnerships with other beneficial associates as described in Info-long (Info-line, ASTD, 2000) will be magnified through support of the Bay Area BAR Associations as the retained attorney is able to establish a profession in conjunction with his/her law school, legislators and the court system. The attorney will reinforce donor/sponsor foundations and positive communication relationships as described by M. Sedeca (Sedeca, 2011), and advocate for the inherent values and activities of the organization and each of its members as it implements the vast number of Grassroots Fundraising activities (Hsiang & Topakiam, 2008). The budget will surely exceed the NEA Grant by at least $4,105. However, the Artist Communitys Arts Project Grant will permit the continuation of these other sources of revenue and support during 2013 while the organization demonstrates its worthiness for the Artist Communitys Our Town Grant of $250,000 for which it will prepare a budget, complete proposal, and application during that year. Human Resource Requirements Compelling Human Resource Requirements, the Project addressed by my Proposal will impact the BAAP workplace with new profound monumentality as the organization is offered national support to further develop and introduce to the world its excellent literature and fine art.

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The impact will also involve the cultural influence of civic and educational activities that BAAP offers. The innovative Project will result in the challenging recruitment of new customer service trainees who will work the phone and the literature table to promote BAAPs professional products and services. The Supervisor of the NEA Project will especially include BAAPs Facilities Manager, Board Members, and Customer Relations. My role involves the preparation of Application Materials as well as the management and submission of references and recommendations of a governmental affiliate and our cultural partnerships; therefore, as a Communications and Editorial Consultant, I am acting as a Manager of Grant Opportunities. As they oversee the budget, production, consultants, sponsorships, and the interviews of new members and trainees, the Board Members and Facilities Manager face challenging cultural issues that involve appointments, behavior, accurate wording, plans, and admission into the facility. Predominant morale and turf issues revolve around the security of the company and each of its membersentry to the facilities depends on a scheduled appointment. As more students and job trainees are encouraged to participate, progress, and instruct at entry-, mid-, and advanced-level positions, the innovative Proposal will involve a systematic approach to the Project to support the National Environmental Policy Act and/or the National Historic Preservation Act, each which evokes diverse cultural perspectives that some individuals will strive to address, but that will require no new job descriptions or special recruiting challenges. Technology (IT) Requirements Highlighting the MS Live and MS Sharepoint IT management systems is to explain the value of the diverse knowledge classification schemes that they permittraining; policy and strategy development; and evaluations and solutions options (Handzic, 2005, 217). MS Sharepoint and MS Live enable motivated members to submit, to share interactively, and to

Development of a Grant Proposal discuss with great security, either portions and/or the entirety of the proposal, application, and

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project, even from a distance. As IT Management Technologies, Microsoft (MS) Sharepoint and MS Live provide a platform that integrates all of the requirements of the National-Endowmentfor-the-Arts (NEA) Grant and related Artist Communitys Art Project. The MS Sharepoint Server 2007 (MOSS) offers important rich features while it also functions as a central hub, not only for accounting, but for an immense variety of collaborative and/or individually derived productsit serves as a flexible filing system, as business, legal, and creative intelligence tools, and as a developing workflow engine. Furthermore, MS Sharepoint and MS Live permit the development, storage, and analyses of collaborative reports, data, and statistics in a secure operating environment that is relevant to our unmet need90% of the senior citizens and parents who are devoting their attention and time to prevent crime in the community and over the internet. MOSS and MS Live handle all of the diverse databases and file systems that our NEA Project and related objectives require. MS Sharepoint and MS Live offer IT Management, not only of the design, business, compositional, instructional, and collaborative stages of the Proposal and Project. They maintain a structure important to legal evidence, ongoing documentation, and decision-making. They prevent vulnerable invasion by spyware attacks and other security threats, counter-attacks, and system failures. Security gurus continue to offer crisis management, relative checklists, and dynamic remedies. With MS Live and MS Sharepoint, one may publish Powerpoint Presentations, other media, Excel Spreadsheets, MS Graphics, and ROI figures to a private and restricted number. As one of our partners incorporates as a nonprofit (i.e., with 501(c)(3) status), these files must be maintained as important legal evidence that our Senior Director is not being paid, and that our corporate members are not creating products that could be deemed a violation

Development of a Grant Proposal of 501(c )(3) regulations (Fritz, 2009). Without these ongoing IT Management resources, the mission creep, which pertains to important political issues that extend beyond our organizations ability to be effective (Magretta, 2002, 92), paralyzes our thoughts and work through overwhelming fear.

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Highlights of MS Sharepoint and MS Live include their complimentary usage. As longtime license owners of MS products that we have upgraded for more than 20 years, we already have recognized user names and passwords for these products. MS Sharepoint 2007 requires a download and a $10/monthly fee for the MS Sharepoint Server. Currently, we pay for several web servers at a similar rate combined; therefore, the price does not alter our estimated or actual budget of the NEA $100,000 Grant. The advantages of socialization and knowledge codification of the IT Management platforms of MS Live and MS Sharepoint involve organizational databases, search engines, and discovery tools through the interior and the exterior of the systems as described in major IT reports. As catalysts, they also highlight the tacit knowledge and [instructional/collaborative] sharingthe focus on individuals, virtual groups, ethical issues, and culture that will improve the appreciation among our corporate members for internet usage reports (Handzic, 2007, 24). Implementation Activities; Operations Requirements Before our organization begins the Art Project that it will develop through the support of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Grant, it must complete the project that involves the Grant application and proposal. The NEA will accept applications up to 10 days prior to the current deadline of March 10, 2012. Scheduling requirements are being drafted as per NEA directions, and physical resource requirements have been secured; however, they are a part of the Operations Requirements because they must be maintained, repaired, and replaced as necessary.

Development of a Grant Proposal Logistical considerations involve the NEA Application; for example, diverse intricate files that are evidence of our 31 years of productionillustrations and editorials of laborers, industrial procedures, instruction, humanitarian gatherings, disasters such as Katrina and oil

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spills, and medical/environmental controversies. These files also include the names of everyone who has contributed to the creation and composition of products and services. Because the Facilities Manager maintains inventory of the equipment in the pressroom and computer lab, he regularly assigns new priorities to his daily records. Operations requirements involve the maintenance of partners and sponsors who offer non-monetary forms of support; for example, reliable technicians who repair and setup equipment in exchange for the usage of the conference room and library. The proposal project requires Facilities and Operations Manager to submit the finest examples of the companys products and services to describe what they will develop, to assess the levels of ongoing development, and to explain at last what they have learned. Because the operations requirements involve financial accounting, for example, the Employer/Taxpayer Identification Number (EIN/TIN) assigned by the Internal Revenue Service, the Operations Manager must trust the graphics designer, Photoshop instructor, and Special Ed instructor with safeguarded data. Furthermore, as collaboration resumes, the benefits of the company as a nonprofit incorporation will attract the major senior stakeholders to further NEA support. All of this data and archived evidence will require the setup, commencement, and sustenance of secure stationsknowledge classification schemes (Handzic, 2005, 217) of MS Live and the MS Sharepoint Server 2007 (MOSS). Access to these stations will be administered through personnel designated by the Operations Manager. As parents have evoked a mission creep (Magretta, 2001, 92) about internet dangers, we have each secured additional desks outside of the company territory. Activities that the

Development of a Grant Proposal Administrator and company must execute and sustain to achieve the Grant Project include: (1) the completed Form SF-424 for Federal Domestic Assistance; (2) The completed NEA Form about the Organization and Profile; (3) The completed NEA-Project-Site-Locations Form, and (4) An Attachment Form to which the following must be attached: The completed Project Budget Form A list of designated financial data on the appropriate form, Completion of biographies of the major project personnel, Identification of all of the board members, Information about the consortium partnerships of official status, The unique project budget of the company (optional), A list of related special activities, A list of special items that the art project requires, A work sample index, and Submission of these components by mail to the NEA Pennsylvania address (NEA, 2011, para. 27) The project will not require assistance from the purchasing or materials management department as so much of our support is realized through non-monetary negotiations. Supplier contracts will not need to be negotiated for any services and supplies unless technological and economic trends and infrastructures change when the NEA support is achieved. No more

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supplies or equipment will need to be inventoried or stored until the recognized economic trends and infrastructures are corrected.

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Although the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) offers Grants that predominantly have hearkened to Museums for the artifacts that they innovate and preserve, it recently has been supporting contemporary art that impacts communities with meaningful art education, art community art projects, and works of distinct excellence. Of course, art historians, curators, and critics do not always direct their attention and support to applicants and submitters of proposals. The number of Artist Community Art Projects and Works that the NEA is funding has grown considerably, and the NEAs disbursement of support by its chairman Rocco Landesman significantly has increased the names of its award categories/titles, and the Watts Arts Grant amid Towers skate park controversy is one example of the NEA at workan example of the way that the program supports partnerships between local government and private art groups. In fact, NEA is funding more private art communities than ever before as members of Senate Cultural Caucuses, for example, bridge public and private learning communities with evocative art forms, such as the Watt Towersthe prominent cultural rise that attracts constructive educational interest as an influential masterpiece of folk art, even from a great distance. The organization, which has responded to the Proposal Cover Letter about the NEA Grant Application, consists of a unique range of artists and of educators who form an Artist Community that continues to produce, share, and to innovate art projects, works, and monumental themes that evoke visibly meaningful lifelong impressions. In the behalf of this organization, this Proposal appeals to award-winning candidates whose work warrants support from the NEA for a new Project or Work. The decision-making process of the NEA is steered by strata of political leaders from the local to the federal level who are impressed by the circumspect and outreach of BAAP as a distinguished private art group. Although NEA

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Chairman Rocco Landesman funded 51 grants that total $6.6 million this year in the Arts alone, the federal agency has granted more than $88 million dollars altogether in 1,145 grants across the nation. Therefore, it should not hesitate to fund BAAP for its 31 years as an active art and literary community that integrates its own supportive humanitarian outreach program, products, and activities. Senator Clairborne Pell had founded the NEA in 1965 as an independent governmental agency that has supported world-class art at levels that are both established or newly developing, and rise of art communities and art education during times of crises is having the effect of the Watt TowersCultural and folk heritage themes, in addition to technological/industrial/sociological themes attract the attention of the artist audience with beneficent influence. The NEA primarily supported nonprofits until recently when it began to fund Artist Communities involved in folk/cultural heritage and historic/contemporary themes of educational value. It supports Museums of Modern Art such as the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia (MOCA GA). On July 12, Portland Oregons Art at Work Program received one of the $100,000 NEA Grants funded by the NEAs inaugural Our Towne program. The public-private partnerships that it is intended to nurture are synonymous with those that BAAP also cultivates. While BAAP has been assisting prominent artists, writers, and educators during its 31 years in the publishing industry, it has also worked simultaneously in the Humanities, both areas coinciding in multidisciplinary studies. It has promoted cultural products of underrepresented communities and individuals that are similar to the neighborhoods surrounding the Watt Towerscrises in Katrina, the University campuses, the educational system, and homeless populations, for example. Therefore, BAAP has not focused on the power of its congressional system and legislators to support directly the role of NEA legislators on cultural activities.

Development of a Grant Proposal Now that the Proposal Cover Letter has reached the Editor Emeritus and Graphics Designer/computer programmer, the organization has shared with me more biographical

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information of its most influential members, evidence of its artist partners, and evidence that its board currently consists of more than 10 members. The Director did not know that the organizations Board of Directors was functioning in respect to the decision-making processes and organizational dynamics that the NEA Chairman and legislators support as excellent influences of art production, innovation, and archiving, which are sustained through ethnic broadcasting, cultural and tribal activities, and artists accomplished in many artistic disciplines. No invisible hand or arcane panacea exists to negotiate the explanations, introductions, and organizational management that the public-private partnerships of BAAP require to complete the application process. However, those partnerships include members who are capable of producing the most excellent art work that ever was conceivableit maintains samples of its work that reflects the dynamic society, industry, and disaster, and profound accounts of direct reporting. As it seeks funding from well-motivated corporate sponsors, BAAP has detected corporate values and objectives that it cannot support. Although such industrial and bureaucratic perspectives do not support those of BAAP, they nonetheless coincide with the legislative supporters of cultural and folk arts, and of contemporary/historic artifacts preserved by museums of art. This contradiction evokes a mission creep (Magretta, 2002, 108)a loss of focus of the Director for general bureaucracy, as the organization supports equality, peace, adequate representation, and ethical standards on a humanitarian level. As Lead Your Manager indicates, winning support from the Manager or Director requires the use of repetition and continual updating to strengthen credibilitya coalition (Antonioni, 2008, 21) with other artist communities and humanitarian/legislative leaders who

Development of a Grant Proposal empathize with BAAPs perspectives about Caracas, HIV, Katrina, the Space Mission, and the Golf Oil crisis, for example. Overseeing these overlapping, perhaps esoteric qualities, the ameliorating analyst must maintain a SWOT analysis, analyzing strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats from an objectively intuitive power-leading position, and advise all

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stakeholders of important deductions, possibilities, and issues. If funds are perceivable restricted to the Senior Operations Manager as a nonprofit rather than capitalist investor, then the intuitive Grant Applicant must lead through the perspective financial analysis, assumption justification, and sensitivity analysis (Hynes, 2007) conducive to the ultimate value that the federal grant support will offer all of the Directors and stakeholders over a prolonged time. Issues The Proposal for the Artist CommunityArt Works Grant has won very much approval by the Board and the Directors who are skeptic of the bureaucracy that forces millions of valuable citizens into destitution. As one analyzes the negligence and disregard of citizens and legislators for victims, of crime, the conscience that major legislators abandon should concern everyone in the justice and social welfare system. Controversial subjects regarding genuine circumstances, free will, and equal opportunity should not force legislators, legal counselors, and political leaders to compel others into dire poverty. The NEA Committee is directed by Chief Rocco Landesman who has been recognizing individual artists and communities as the heart and hope of the nationa perspective that was not prominent or widely respected in the 1990s. Effective strategies involve the reading and following of all of the rules, and the reading and learning of the NEA and the Grant that an organization may seek; the Proposal in this case involves the Application for Artist CommunitiesArt Works Grant. New Grants and titles have

Development of a Grant Proposal been derived and assigned over the past several years. The common review process of Art Works by the NEA is extensive, and it is posted on its web. The Intelligence in Grant Identity Other organizations that the NEA has supported with Grants for providing access to Artistic Excellence include Artist Communities such as the MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, and

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many more that are similar to the organization for which the Proposal is intended. To reiterate, NEA Chairman Rocco Landesman has funded 51 grants that total $6.6 million this year in the Arts for the Watts Towers area of California alone, and the federal agency has granted more than $88 million dollars altogether in 1,145 grants across the nation. In 2008, it offered invaluable assistance to Rhode Islands Artist Communities; to the Albuquerque Health Care for the Homeless (AHCH) for a collaborative project between AHCHs ArtStreet program; to Seattle Art Communities and Partnershipsthe list is too immense to list here; however, it continues to grow by the number and by the title; furthermore, new categories are available for individual artists and writers. Foundations for the Humanities and Heritage Fellowships are also new innovations of the Association. Successful Applications most influentially appeal to vast audiences. Further guidelines to successful competition include: Meticulous adherence to the Application Instructions; Accurately detailed Organization and Project Profiles; Well worded biographies of prominent accomplished members of the organization; Samples of the most excellent work of contributing members; Meaningful programmatic Activities List; and A Project Narrative that effectively describes the planned Project.

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